Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
Captain Dampier saw forty Indians together on one of the rocky islands to the eastward of Cape Leveque, and in his quaint description of them says: "The inhabitants of this country are the miserablest people in the world.
But the Maid denied him, saying, that she had no mind at-all to a Souldier, because it was one of the poorest and miserablest sort of levelihoods; their pay being but very little, and they were seldom advanced, &c.
Then, when he brought them to the carriage, I kept him there while I asked numberless questions about you, and heard from him just how good you are, and how you help him in the Sunday-school and everywhere, visiting the poor, picking up ragged children and doing things I never thought of doing; but I am not going to be so useless any longer, and the next time you visit some of the very miserablest I want you to take me with you.
"Well, now what have you got in your head, I'd like to know?" said Ned; "tell me quickly, for I hate long speeches, you know." "Well, in the first place, you must know I want to help those Culm people, somehow. That's " "Yes," interrupted Ned, "they need 'helping, I should think! They're the laziest, miserablest set of people I ever saw.
When I take a full view and circle of myself, without this reasonable moderator and equal piece of justice, death, I do conceive myself the miserablest person extant.
His arm dropped out of the bed and his head with it, and there he lay before me crushed in body and in mind. Surely the miserablest sight under the summer sun! "O blessed Heaven," I says a crying, "teach me what to say to this broken mortal! I am a poor sinful creetur, and the Judgment is not mine."
"Full of such humor, and perhaps the miserablest man in the whole French Capital or Suburbs, was I, one sultry Dog-day, after much perambulation, toiling along the dirty little Rue Saint-Thomas de l'Enfer, among civic rubbish enough, in a close atmosphere, and over pavements hot as Nebuchadnezzar's Furnace; whereby doubtless my spirits were little cheered; when, all at once, there rose a Thought in me, and I asked myself: 'What art thou afraid of?
And he got June to singing transatlantic songs, after old Judd said one day that she knowed the "miserablest song he'd ever heerd" meaning the most sorrowful.
At that time it was not known whether it was an island or a continent, but Dampier affirms that it joins neither to Asia, Africa, nor America. The land was low and sandy, and destitute of water. Dampier describes the inhabitants as the "miserablest people in the world.
He says we can be married in a day or two." "I wish he had never seen you." "Very well; then I will be the miserablest woman in the world, and not let him see me again. No, I won't have him!" "It is too late to speak so. Come with me. I am going to the inn to see if he has returned. Of course I shall get to the bottom of this story at once. Mr.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking